CfR are looking for a renewable energy graduate engineer to join the team. Please find the full job spec below.

About CfR
CfR is a mission-led community interest company which helps communities around the UK to
develop, finance and manage their own local power generation. Our experience includes:

• Delivered community owned renewables from solar panels on school roofs to MW-scale
  community-owned solar farms
• £78million of capital raised including £17million from over 2,000 community investors, bank
  project finance, council loans and social investment funds
• Manage over 100 megawatts of MW-scale community solar and wind across 10 localities.
  Projected to generate over £35million of surplus income (after operating and finance costs)
  to support net zero transition, fuel poverty and community projects in their localities over
  the next 25+ years

CfR’s services and experience covers all aspects of developing, financing and running a local power
project including:

• Enterprise set-up (including company formation, business planning, governance set-up,
  policies, company admin set-up and community and stakeholder engagement);
• Project development (including feasibility studies, planning consent, landowner engagement
  and legal agreements, grid connection and construction contractor procurement);
• Shared ownership – managing the purchase of development-stage and operational projects
  from commercial developers into community ownership;
• Raising construction and long-term finance from commercial lenders, social investors and
  community share / bond offers;
• Ongoing company and asset management covering all aspects of running a community
  energy project and company on behalf of the board and members.

CfR’s team are its most important asset. CfR provides long-term services and, therefore, needs to
build a team committed and supported for the long-term. CfR seeks to nurture a working
environment which supports the long-term aspirations, health and economic needs of its staff.
CfR has a progressive employee and mission centric business model.

CfR has an ‘open source’ culture and we encourage all team members, regardless of their role and
experience, to contribute ideas towards the effective running of the company and furthering CfR’s
mission.

The role
The role would suit a renewable energy engineering graduate with evidenced skills in: technical
analysis, project management, report writing and clear communications. Candidates will need to
demonstrate an interest and commitment to CfR’s mission and to living and working in Cornwall.
1/ Community solar asset management
The core responsibilities are set out below. These are based on CfR’s company and asset
management scope of services. This may include:

• Daily checking of monitoring systems for each community solar project for early
  identification of faults.
• Monthly and quarterly analysis of performance against P50/P75/P90 and performance ratio
  projections.
• Management of CfR’s asset management data platforms.
• Preparation of monthly / quarterly / annual reports to the community energy enterprise
  boards and funders to include technical performance of assets, operations and maintenance
  activities, and grid outages.
• Support CfR’s Project Managers with site visits, O&M and other operations contractor
  management, PPA tenders and FiT submissions.
• In time take responsibility for managing a client community energy enterprise, with support
  from the team.

2/ New project feasibility and development

Supporting new project feasibility and development work. This may include:

• Technical feasibility studies for new projects, including resource assessments and outline
  project designs.
• Constraints mapping and analysis.
• Financial modelling.
• Grid application submissions and management.
• Managing specialist sub-contractors.
• Feasibility report writing.
• Supporting the development team to manage new MW-scale community solar and wind
  projects through the development process (including planning and environmental impact
  assessment, community engagement, grid connection, landowner agreements, design,
  procurement, construction contractor management and financing).

3/ Other

Support the CfR team with other work which may include:

• Management of feasibility studies, proposals, procurement and installation contractor
  management for roof-top solar installations on schools and community buildings funded by
  surplus incomes from the big community solar farms CfR manages;
• Helping to organise and deliver school visits to community solar farms.

Further details

Location: Redruth House, Cornwall Business Park West, Scorrier TR16 5EZ (min 3 days
per week) and home working. Note we will be moving office to near Bissoe.

Salary

£28,000 per year to be reviewed after 1 year
Eligible for CfR team bonus and EV scheme after 1 year
Salary to increase with inflation each year
Basic pension package

Holiday: 25 days pro rata + bank holidays

Term: Permanent, subject to 6 month probation period with 3 and 6 month review

Training: A personal training programme will be developed depending on needs and
funding available.

Start date: ASAP

Employer: Communities for Renewables CIC

Application:

Please send a CV and cover letter, which between them should demonstrate
why you are interested in the role and how you meet the requirements.

Applications should be emailed to Jake Burnyeat (Managing Director):
jakeburnyeat@cfrcic.co.uk